Kim Kardashian
Hollywood beauty icon recently revealed that she has been diagnosed with brain aneurysm during the season 7 premiere of 'The Kardashians'

What is brain aneurysm?
A brain aneurysm is a bulge or ballooning in a blood vessel within the brain, most often at arterial junctions in the Circle of Willis. The weakened vessel wall can rupture, leading to subarachnoid haemorrhage—a life-threatening condition. Many aneurysms remain asymptomatic until rupture occurs, warranting early detection in high-risk individuals.

Causes
Brain aneurysms result from congenital vessel wall weaknesses, hypertension, smoking, trauma, or infections. Genetic disorders like Ehlers-Danlos or polycystic kidney disease increase risk. Chronic hemodynamic stress weakens the arterial wall over time. Aneurysm formation often involves a combination of genetic predisposition and environmental insults that compromise vascular integrity.

Effects
Un-ruptured aneurysms may cause headaches, vision disturbances, or nerve compression. Ruptured aneurysms lead to sudden, severe headache, vomiting, neck stiffness, or loss of consciousness. Survivors may suffer paralysis, memory loss, seizures, or death. Immediate intervention remains crucial as ruptured aneurysms carry a high mortality and disability risk.

Treatment
Treatment options for brain aneurysm includes medical treatment, non-surgical therapy, surgical therapy. 

Medical treatment includes supportive measures with some of the drugs to stabilize the blood pressure and to prevent the vasospasm. 

It includes treatment with calcium channel blockers and treatment of seizures. Surgical treatment includes microsurgical techniques in which the aneurysm is clipped. 

There are endovascular treatment which are the recent advances where the endovascular coiling of this aneurysm is done without opening the skull.